Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1887-06-10
OUR CINDERELLA.
BY THOMAS prNN ENGLISH.

BY THOMAS DUNS ENGLISH.
She was our nurs!maid and a sort Of
faetotum. We thought we could scarce
y get along without her. Aud We
called her "oar Cinderella" payfuly.
and not at all reproachfuly. Our cook
had gone of, and, my wife being sick
At the time, Betty undertook to get our
breakfast. She succeeded, after fashion;
but she SO covered her usually neat per
son with ashes and coal smut that my
little daughter, Carissy, called her Gin.
derella, and the name stuck.
The way we got Betty was this. Our
boy baby, little Marmaduke, had to be
out in the air, and my wife, Mrs. Jud-
kins-I am John Judkins, scotsman
and florist, successor to Jarmin & Jud.
kins-suggested that, as the seed shop
was doing a good business and the
greenhouses were run to their full ca.
pacity, as we were able to keep cook
aud chambermad, we might as well
20 further and have regular French
bonne, with ribbons and cap like a
new pudding bag to wheel little Mar
maduke on the sidewalk. Thus we
could add to the comfort Of the family
and show an admiring population the
Prize baby Of the period growing thu,
two plants on one stalk. | sug -estcd in
turn that we had better move out to the
garden where there was a handsome house
for which had not been able to secure n
tenant. Here my better half interposed
veto. Mrs. Julkins had been born
and bred in the city, and in the city she
would live and die. Like her father
the late Mr.. Jarman, there was no over
coming her once expressed resolution.
At length this matter was settled by a
~sorrsprorniae. sctittn't- get tho Fronch
bonne, but | came upon a German ono,
sort Of amateur nurse as it were. A
young girl fresh from Carisruhc,
who spoke English very well, but lit
tie stilted, as she had learned it at
school, was looking for a situation as
teacher. She had COOL recon- ncnda-
! tions and was youchcd for as respccta-
Bile by the German consul, who was an
occasional customer Of mine. In default
Of something better, she agreed to teach
Chrissy G.rman IN the piano. and to
give the baby attention and an airing
when we thought proper SoIcngaged
Ter atvery reasonable wages.
Her name was i sabeth r cinfe'dt;
and so we translated her nam into L Z
abcth, and from that into Bstty. I'll,
only drawback was that she was very
pretty and graceful, aad had the small
est feet and hands ha ever seen on a
girl, but that just iittcl tn, baby, who
was tie very-no matter; every one adj
mittea his beauty. She grew to be in
valuable, for shc turned out to b. q
good scamstress, and was ready to turn
her hand to anything.
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effects left her and came 70 this couatr
with a slender purse, whose content
were nearly exhausted when we got het
Among my customers was Mr.. Pa'
Evton, rich bachelor who was gree
flower faneler aad an amateur garlene
with conservatory iarge enough for
greenhouse and . great desire to gro
new varieties Of plants. H. was N
much over thirty but had 50 bronze
himself by travel that he looked Ollie
When he grew anything novel, which
rarely did, he always gave me the stoc
plant to propagate from, 50 that he VI
very useful, and he got il the habit
dropping in the shop and chatting on
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